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Accessing shares with multiple users
Hey all,
I am at my wits' end. I have had my RN 516 for a long time and never had any problems accessing shares that I noted; however, in going over some long pending maintenance tasks, I realized that my access permissions were not acting as intended. I have four use cases:
- Shares that can be accessed by anyone, whether logged in or not
- Shares that can be accessed by anyone with an account on the NAS
- Shares that can be accessed only by a single user (additional access by admin is acceptable)
- Shares that cannot be accessed by network devices (used for long-term storage of files)
What I have found is that users can access only those folders that are setup for access by Anonymous (use case 1), Any type of credentialed access fails. All computers are running Windows 10. I don't care what network access protocol I use, although I had SMB and NFS enabled.
Steps I've tried: Deleting Windows Credential for the NAS. Reseting user passwords on the NAS. Reseting file access on the NAS. Trying various permutations of User Access on the Network and File settings screens. Begging the NAS to please work.
Any helpful advice would be much appreciated.
Success!!!!!!
The final piece of the puzzle was in Windows Features, of all things. Once I enabled SMB 1.0 / CIFS File Sharing Support, everything worked. Why I was able to access shares without this enabled, who knows, but I definitely have proper permission-based accees!
Thank you rn_enthusiast and StephenB for your help!
To anyone else reading this thread: I am marking this post with the missing Windows Feature as the solution, but please read rn_enthusiast 's post above, as that took care of one of the other issues (involving a mapped drive) as well.
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Are you attempting to change file permissions on the file access page, or network permissions on the network access page?
- I've tried both. Nothing I've done has given me any measure of success, other than to make access to the shares available to "anonymous".
Hi reseune
You should use the Network permissions (i.e share permissions) rather than file permissions to configure this. There is nothing wrong with file permissions but it is FAR easier to control and setup Share permissions when it comes to the ReadyNAS, mainly because the file permissions UI is bad.
Reset permissions on the share to wipe all file based permissions and then work with Network (share) permissions instead. What you are trying to accomplish is absolutely possible and should be straight forward... but not from the same PC. Keep this in mind. Windows does not allow you to access the same network resource with multiple different usernames, from the same PC/user. I assume this isn't your intended use case either, but it can really mess with you when testing it and Windows can be stubborn when it comes to caching these things.
Windows credentials manager (in the PC's control panel) are a good way to manage this but they can be super annoying if they cache the wrong thing. I actually use Windows credentials manager to force my PC to always use a certain set of credentials for the NAS. My wife's PC is setup the same way, but for her user.
I would suggest you do as follows:
1. Reset file permissions on the share, from the NAS.
2. Configure your network/share permissions as you want them, on the NAS.
3. Delete all cached shares on your PC. Click on the start menu and search for "cmd". It will suggest the command prompt for you, open this up. In the command prompt box, type: net use * /d
4. Nuke everything under the Windows Credentials manager, in the control panel on the PC (Control Panel > User Accounts > Credential Manager > Windows Credentials).
5. Reboot the PC.
6. Map a new network drive in Windows, for a NAS share, using the credentials of the user you have setup for yourself, on the NAS. Does that work?Remember, Windows does not allow you to use multiple username for the same shared network resource. In that instance, you will see an error prompt along the lines of: "Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one username, is not allowed.".
One NAS user per one PC, in your household.
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